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Kathleen McDermott

Executive Editor for History

startquote I seek general interest and academic books across a wide range of history. I look for works with broad appeal and original arguments, books that engage readers eager to learn about the past and that advance scholarship in the academic community. One of the joys of working on history books is having a passionate audience; history readers revel in new information, new ideas, new perspectives. I have been one of those readers my entire life, and I want the books I acquire to be part of the discussions and debates in that lively world. The many areas I cover include: American history of any period; environmental history; Atlantic history; medieval to modern European history, including eastern Europe and Russia; the modern Middle East; Asian history; and Latin American history. I am interested in books that cross borders and consider global contexts, and welcome book proposals for international history, military history, and biographies. endquote

Recent Books

Cover: Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?, by Alexander Keyssar, from Harvard University Press

Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
Alexander Keyssar

Cover: God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan, by Jon Butler, from Harvard University Press

God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan
Jon Butler

Cover: The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, With a New Preface, by Khalil Gibran Muhammad, from Harvard University Press

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, With a New Preface
Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Cover: China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism, by Rana Mitter, from Harvard University Press

China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism
Rana Mitter

Cover: Freedom: An Unruly History, by Annelien de Dijn, from Harvard University Press

Freedom: An Unruly History
Annelien de Dijn

Cover: The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas, by Monica Muñoz Martinez, from Harvard University Press

The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
Monica Muñoz Martinez

Cover: The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, by Lindsay M. Chervinsky, from Harvard University Press

The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
Lindsay M. Chervinsky

Cover: The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria, by Owen White, from Harvard University Press

The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria
Owen White

Cover: The World of Plymouth Plantation, by Carla Gardina Pestana, from Harvard University Press

The World of Plymouth Plantation
Carla Gardina Pestana

Cover: Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China–Korea Relations, by Odd Arne Westad, from Harvard University Press

Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China–Korea Relations
Odd Arne Westad

Cover: God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America, by Aaron Griffith, from Harvard University Press

God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America
Aaron Griffith

Cover: The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire, by Dominique Kirchner Reill, from Harvard University Press

The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire
Dominique Kirchner Reill

Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, by Joshua Bennett, from Harvard University Press

Recent News

Alexander Keyssar, author of Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?, spoke with WBUR (Boston, MA)’s On Point about the endurance of the problematic fixture of American democracy.
At the Washington Post, Tom Zoellner, author of Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire, (re)introduced the forgotten holiday “August First Day,” which commemorates Britain’s passage of the Slavery Abolition Act in 1834—legislation that marked the beginning of legal freedom for 800,000 enslaved people across its many colonial holdings.
Atomic Doctors author James L. Nolan, Jr., spoke with Inside Edition about the discovery of his grandfather’s role in helping to build the atomic bomb.

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From Our Blog

Jacket: Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age, by James L. Nolan, Jr., from Harvard University Press

Remembering Hiroshima

On this day 75 years ago, the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. James L. Nolan Jr.’s grandfather was a doctor who participated in the Manhattan Project, and he writes about him in Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age, an unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas faced by physicians who took part in the project. Below, please find the introduction to Nolan’s book. On the morning of June 17, 1945, Captain James F. Nolan, MD, boarded a plane…

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